Telly [Broadway] Tim Minchin (Ft. Gabriel Ebert & Taylor Trensch)

[MR WORMWOOD]
Somewhere, on a show, I heard
That a picture tells a thousand words
So, telly, if you bothered to take a look
Is the equivalent of, like . . . lots of books!

All I know, I learnt from telly
This big beautiful box of facts
If you know a thing already
Baby, you can switch the channel over just like that

Endless joy and endless laughter
Folks living happily ever after
All you need to make you wise
Is twenty-three minutes plus advertisements

Why would we waste our energy
Turning the pages, one, two, three?
When we can sit comfortably
On our lovely bumferlies
Watching people singing, and talking, and doing stuff?

All I know, I learnt from telly
The bigger the telly, the smarter the man
You can tell from my big telly
Just how clever of a fellow I am!